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Annual UST Earth Day Lecture “Creation and the University: Educating for a Human Ecology”
Thursday, April 15, 2010 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM
UST will host the Annual Earth Day lecture featuring internationally known speaker and Oxford scholar Stratford Caldecott from 7:30-9:30 p.m. Thursday, April 15 in Jones Hall.
Caldecot’s lecture, “Creation and the University: Educating for a Human Ecology” will reflect on the importance of teaching about creation and the natural world at a small Catholic liberal arts university like UST. The event is sponsored by Environmental Science and Studies, Pope John Paul II Forum and the Honors Program.
Caldecott will present a brief summary of the main arguments in his recently published book, Beauty for Truth’s Sake: The Re-enchantment of Education. He will speak about the need to broaden our reason to recover a sense of wonder at the cosmos as a means to re-enchanting education. He will draw upon the teachings of Pope John Paul II, Newman, and others to develop pointers for an adequate anthropology for education, one grounded in the recovery of wonder and the connection between human and natural ecology.
Caldecott lives in Oxford, where he studied philosophy and psychology before entering a career in publishing with Routledge, HarperCollins and T&T Clark. Currently editor of the international journal Second Spring and of Sophia Institute Press, he also serves on the editorial boards of Communio and The Chesterton Review, and is the author most recently of Beauty for Truth's Sake (Brazos, 2009), a book about the recovery of the Christian cosmological vision in education.
| Cost |
Free and open to the public |
| Location |
Jones Hall |
| Address |
3910 Yoakum |
| Contact |
Sister Damien Marie Savino, FSE at 713-525-3894; savinod@stthom.edu |
| Sponsored By |
Environmental Science and Studies, Pope John Paul II Forum, and the Honors Program |
| Flyer |
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